Hydropoetyka przepływu i oporu w poezji dla młodego odbiorcy (wiersze Józefa Ratajczaka, Jerzego Ficowskiego i Danuty Wawiłow)
Hydropoetics of ‘Flow and Resistance’ in Poetry Addressed to Young Readers Poems by Józef Ratajczak, Jerzy Ficowski, and Danuta Wawiłow

Summary/Abstract: The bidirectional coexistence water’s of semantic implications as both “flow” and “resistance” reveals the antinomic nature of aquatic symbolism in children’s poetry. By examining selected poems by Józef Ratajczak, Jerzy Ficowski, and Danuta Wawiłow, this study offers a comprehensive analysis of the semantic tension surrounding water (more precisely streams, seas, or metonymically—drops, puddles, rain) – positioned between its therapeutic and corruptive potential, freedom and constraint, carefreeness and anxiety, knowledge and mystery, loss and epiphany. Concurrently, water emerges as a metaphorical equivalent for the dynamism and spontaneity of the child’s imagination, shaping the “fluid” boundaries between reality and fantasy. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Gaston Bachelard and Gilbert Durand, the article highlights the transgressive nature of aquatic imagery, which resists rigid semantic dichotomies.

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